How do we feel about non 100% KDE job offers being sent here?

[jens at ohyran.se]

I'm in the "go for it" camp totally.

I mean some kind of "is this fitting" thought surely before posting buuuut some 
activity doesn't hurt.

(KDE and the lack of a central communicative hub we feel we can invest time in 
is a immortal struggle after all so pushing for more activity feels like a good 
thing)

On Thursday, 25 November 2021 15:05:15 CET Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 at 10:56 Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday, 25 November 2021 14:44:56 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > I know a company that would like to hire people with a skill set that
> > > is relatively common inside the KDE community, the job is not strictly
> > > KDE related, one could call it KDE-adjacent.
> > > 
> > > How do we feel about such job offers being sent here?
> > > 
> > > I have conflicting opinions myself.
> > > 
> > > Pro:
> > >  * We want people of the community to get [potentially better] jobs
> > > 
> > > Con:
> > >  * The list could filled with job offers that are not really KDE
> > > 
> > > related since it's hard to define what "KDE-adjacent" really means.
> > > 
> > > Possible mitigation of the Con: Allow only Supporting Member companies
> > > to send such job offers, but then it also is a potential mitigation of
> > > the Pro :D
> > > 
> > > I think my opinion at this point would be "Let companies sent job
> > > offers to this list and if it becomes unmanageable we say 'OK, was
> > > worth a try, but it's not working, please don't send anymore'"
> > > 
> > > What do y'all think?
> > 
> > This list hasn't got a massive amount of traffic. Sounds like a good and
> > beneficial use of bandwidth to me.
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Paul
> 
> I agree with Paul, one of the hardest selling points of free software is
> that “working for free doesn’t pay the bills”, I don’t mind having jobs
> that are somewhat related to kde on the list.
> 
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